From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Harning Subject: Git as a backup solution Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:59:25 -0400 Message-ID: <20080415175925.2810affa@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 16 00:00:22 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JltCO-0004Eg-5G for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759722AbYDOV7f (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:59:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759765AbYDOV7f (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:59:35 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:39618 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759722AbYDOV7e (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:59:34 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so585854and.103 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:59:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kXlqVYSLr1AGVOK3G7N6A+w9EqDBcEiZtG80f0zbUho=; b=C/D5ZuoT2keVGmn1LW6X8Oab6UsVWU+HWW5CbnDwBs47VMmRZaSB0JqaZO+PPXMFX7FA/yUcUIUwStflgpxsUYsHL39DoPaqT/PGRFaXiAd+Xasfn7ukxHtG99+YLpuLsBfN5k81UpQJMQXlDJGMkSa+mG0oyDVUsGdt0AEdDy4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KcViMlPxzV+TEzzrNEqU3/Tf07KzRwLEqDLpDPYTgrVqmwEfxhPehl1IBIgwhSR+3Ht1qBojblVffUvnOY987bASV1rXx8tlfooho/tRCWRp+QaCMZLzzqpG1u4806ArPX7wWWXrjTPaRCJoVHcrOBpiBVas0EUoB5hgjYdb5Lk= Received: by 10.100.251.8 with SMTP id y8mr9226631anh.133.1208296772022; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [149.164.193.61]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 17sm7795669hsq.16.2008.04.15.14.59.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:59:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've seen a few things out there that permits the use of Git as a backup system... The only one that seems to 'really' be able to store everything in a Git repository is 'gibak', implemented in Ocaml... Others seem to mostly fit the note, except for the fact that they cannot store .git directories (kind of important for a 'generic' backup solution).... It'd be interesting to see what a backup solution could do WRT taking advantage of a given .git repository in packing even better by doing something like taking a stash of the current state of a git workspace + other files not being tracked by it for smaller packs......... Are there any others out there?